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Old February 11th, 2008 #10
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Exodus from SA to Israel

Immigration, Israel, Crime, South-Africa, Afrikaners

In June last year we advised South African Jews to go to Israel. Almost a year hence, and who knows how many bodies later, mainstream media have finally caught up:

“Sheldon Cohen was sitting in his car outside a Johannesburg sports stadium last week waiting for his son Noah to finish soccer practice.

Sheldon, 47, was talking to his father, Jack, on his cellphone when three young men ran past and shot him in the neck. Jack, realizing something terrible had happened, sped to the stadium.

The killers, who had moments before tried unsuccessfully to snatch a cellular phone from a woman parked nearby who was also waiting for her son, had seen Sheldon on the phone and thought he was calling the police. So they killed him. Jack arrived shortly after to see his son’s body slumped in his car, with grandson Noah standing watch.

A week earlier, a Jewish man walking to synagogue in Johannesburg was stopped by several men in a passing car. One man got out of the car and demanded that the Jewish man hand over his tallit bag, thinking it contained valuables. The Jew refused, and was shot to death. Searching through his victim’s bag, the attacker found nothing of value to himself and left it on the sidewalk.

According to South African press reports, police recorded 126,000 armed robberies in the 2006-2007 fiscal year. Exactly a decade ago, that figure stood at 70,000.

….of the Jews who leave Johannesburg, about a third go to Australia, and two-thirds to Israel and other places.

Ofer Dahan, the Jewish Agency’s emissary in South Africa, says there has been a dramatic increase in applications for aliya over the past two months.

Dahan says there is a 100-percent increase in interest in aliya from last year, and a 300% increase in those opening aliya files over the past two months. In 2007, 240 South African Jews and former Israelis made aliya, an increase from 143 in 2006 and 98 in 2005. Dahan says his staff are working round the clock, and have even had to hire outside staff to help cope with the demand.”

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What the Jerusalem Post reporter failed to tell his readers (we didn’t) was why exactly a move to Israel—ostensibly a spot where homicidal Palestinian suiciders often attack—is so much safer than staying in SA (or even the US).

We gave the numbers:

“Israel’s overall death rate from crime is very low; lower than that of the US, which is, overall, about 6 in 100,000. … Remarkably, in 2004, Israel’s death by murder was 3.7 per 100,000 for civilians only; 4.3 when soldiers were included. (“Homicide rates in 2004 in a number of major U.S. cities, including the nation’s capital, exceeded rates of Palestinian fatalities at the hands of Israel’s army in the past year.”)

It shows you, this one-woman band is able to offer better statistics-backed advice to desperate South Africans, who need level-headed advisors, than mainstream newspapers with all their resources and biases. It’s about knowing what information matters.

Afrikaner non-Jews might want to consider converting. Israel may just be their last resort. The country is hungry for western immigrants, affords a nice life-style, as well as the hot weather Afrikaners so enjoy. Military service will also thrill the typical hardy Afrikaner. Jehovah or Jesus, what’s the difference? Both were/are Jewish.

And don’t forget: Israel was perhaps the only good friend the Old, orderly South Africa (warts and all) had:

“One of the most hidden but critical of South Africa’s strategic relationships during the apartheid era was that with Israel, including both the Labor and the Likud governments. Israel officially opposed the apartheid system, but it also opposed broad international sanctions against Pretoria. For strategic reasons, much of the debate in Israeli government circles stressed coordinating ties to Pretoria within the framework of the tripartite relationship among Jerusalem, the United States (Israel’s primary benefactor), and South Africa. Israel was also opposed to international embargoes in general, largely as a consequence of its own vulnerability to UN and other international sanctions.

South Africa and Israel had collaborated on military training, weapons development, and weapons production for years before broad sanctions were imposed in the late 1980s. Military cooperation continued despite the arms embargo and other trade restrictions imposed by the United States and much of Western Europe…”

posted by Ilana Mercer on 02.10.08 @ 4:32 pm |

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I must tell you:

I wept as I read your report.

Indeed, these are truly “sad” times,
when under the “guise” of
freedom-fighters,
common-thugs-murderers-and-criminals
may dictate
Global policy.

Isteneltesen,
Szasz

By Szasz on 02.10.08 5:09 pm

What you say about people from S.A. moving to Australia or Israel (and other places) is interesting. Just last night I was talking to someone on the phone, and I told them that if worse comes to worst in America, I would consider moving either to Israel or Australia.

Things would have to get a lot worse in America, though, because there are a lot of things that I hate about Israel, such as its high taxes, its conscription policy, and its impotent government. What makes that so much greater than America?

But it’s probably better than S.A. That’s for sure. And at this point, I would blame the South Africans for their own fatalities. How long does it take people to figure out that it might be time to pack your bags and get out of town? Stupidity hurts.

By Patrick Keefe on 02.10.08 6:52 pm

D’ya think Joe Slovo will make aliya?

[Fortunately he is dead. In the unhappy event he was not, Israel would be expected to refuse him entry as it did another Jewish Mafioso.—IM]

By Crosley Crux III on 02.10.08 7:51 pm

This is a reply to Patrick O’Keefe. It is certainly not as as easy as that, just packing your bags and leaving. First and foremost, we South Africans are a fierce and patriotic bunch. We do not just pack up and go. Go where ?? We are going to fight back and conquer our country back from the evil that currently prevails. You are the one that’s stupid

By Willem Hollenbach on 02.10.08 9:52 pm

Hey Patrick, not everybody in SA can comfortably hop between different countries as a skilled migrant (which necessitates a degree or two and some years working experience) - I am an Engineering PhD student studying aboad and finding the process of “earning residence”, in a nice country where I might have a nice future, very painful. Pity the unwanted: the old and not so elite… common people they are called - for them emmigration is nearly impossible.
There is an increasing number of stories of parents being shot in front of their children at sports events/ pratice in SA… the criminal mind is frightfully callous.

[Indeed, see the post “Advice to South Africans Contemplating Emigration,” and “Please Can My Sister Become and Illegal Immigrant.”–IM]

By Carmen Viljoen on 02.11.08 12:35 am

To Mr. Hollenbach: I applaud your grit and courage. But, How are you going to do it? You are outnumbered at home and friendless in the international community. I don’t mean to say that you are wrong, just up against a tough situation.

By james huggins on 02.11.08 6:43 am

I know this seems a rather ignorant question, but what’s the bad blood between blacks and Jews !?!

The net sites I have visited seem to be somewhat unconvincing (or biased against Jews).

By Indian Anglophile on 02.11.08 12:25 pm

You people had your chance to fight back, but you were too pussy to defeat the socialist enemy. I don’t think you’re fighters. I think you are a weak bunch for letting South Africa be in this predicament to begin with. Now your only hope is to leave.

[How much do you know, P., about the part the US, UK & Europe had in bringing SA to its economic and political knees? say Israel was the only country to do right by SA.–IM]

By Patrick Keefe on 02.11.08 2:55 pm

http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=642